Women win despite chauvinist Johansson

YOU COULD call them Dumb and Dumber, except in the film Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels were merely stupid, not chauvinistic to boot. Another movie title, adapted slightly, might be more appropriate for Sepp Blatter and Lennart Johansson: Pervy Old Men. Last year Blatter, Fifa president and the man who once said “the future of football is female”, tried to set the women’s game back 30 years by suggesting that players wear “ tighter shorts” to attract better crowds.

On Friday Johansson, the Uefa president, attempted to distance himself from Blatter, but merely succeeded in trumping him in creepiness. In a radio interview about the need for women’s football to increase sponsorship, the 75-year-old Swede offered this rambling piece of advice: “There are so many companies who could make use of the fact that if you see a girl playing on the ground when they are sweaty . . . and the rainy weather